On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:31:12PM -0400, Terry Dontje wrote:
> I was talking with Jeff Squyres about your issue and he thinks the
> config.guess issue needs to be resolved first, even though your
> specification of x86_64 seems to get you by.
>
> So, do you still see the unexpected "(" if you try and run
> config/config.guess directly? The original issue IIRC was:
yes
->config/config.guess
config/config.guess: line 1102: syntax error near unexpected token `('
config/config.guess: line 1102: ` UNAME_REL=`(/bin/uname -X|grep
Release|sed -e 's/.*= //')`'
->
> Can you manually run UNAME_REL=`(/bin/uname -X|grep Release|sed -e
> 's/.*= //')` in your shell without error?
there is no error as such but uname does not return what is wanted
->/bin/uname -X|grep Release|sed -e 's/.*= //'
/bin/uname: invalid option -- X
Try `/bin/uname --help' for more information.
->
both of the above operate identically in both tcsh and bash
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